No verebrae to your relationship?Blame your mom:Study

Children whose parents remarry several times or have multiple partners are likely to have more relationships themselves when they’re adults, a study has suggested.

An array of biological traits, as well as factors learned from parents in childhood, influence our relationship success, US researchers, lead by Dr Claire Kamp Dush, an associate professor of human sciences at Ohio State University, said.

The researchers said that signs of an increased breakup rate being passed down the generations could be down to a mix of heritable factors, such as personality traits or mental health conditions, and the relationship skills children see from their parents.

“What our results suggest is that mothers may pass on their marriageable characteristics and relationship skills to their children — for better or worse,” said Dr Dush.

For the study, published in the ‘PLOS One’ , Dr Dush used data from 7,152 people enrolled on the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. The study focused on households where children lived with their biological mother. Dr Kamp Dush said there was no data available for households where children spend equal time with their father.